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- From: koziol@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Quincey Koziol)
- Subject: Re: Diplomacy rules ?
- References: <999@rc1.vub.ac.be>
- Message-ID: <C0107o.L0x@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Organization: Nat'l Center for Supercomputing Applications
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 14:57:23 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <999@rc1.vub.ac.be> Karel Driesen <kjdriese@vnet3.vub.ac.be> writes:
- >I have been having a news server installed for 2 months now, and I am a
- >PBM addict. It surprises me to find this group barely alive. The only
- >thread I have seen yet is about Diplomacy.
- >
- >Given the number and complexity of the games you find in for instance the
- >Flagship magazine, I would think there is a lot more to discuss about.
- >
- Possibly this is due to people trying to compete in the very games
- that they would be able to discuss knowledgably. They don't want to give
- away any useful information to a potential enemy/competetitor, so they just
- don't say anything.
- Also, possibly the reason that people play PBM games is because they
- _don't_ have access to the Internet with all of it's free PBEM games.
- Personally, I believe that the overlap between people on the Internet
- and people of play PBM games is vanishingly small...although you and I appear
- to be one of them.
-
- Quincey
- koziol@ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Clawe, in Conquest & Destiny in the Sagittarian Arm
-